"Olive has this kind of thing at home...... How can we be short of money? How can I cover my face for hundreds of Louis......."

Charles looked at an ancient parchment on the table, but the rules of the writing were very clear, and he was deeply resentful that he had no treasure mountain and did not know it.

The parchment has a sword and shield cross and a crown lion on it, indicating that the effectiveness of the paper is recognized by both the Flensian royal family and the Flensian military department, and the meaning of the bold lines at the beginning of the page, 'Permission to Produce and Trade in Gunpowder Weapons', Charles knows better than anyone else.

Where is this license for the production of gunpowder weapons, this is simply a license to make a fortune!

"Charles, our family's weapons factory has been in Lorraine, and it is under the care of Viscount Wenze, but he has now openly declared that he is no longer loyal to the Chevalier family, although the factory is ours, but those workers are all Wenze's lords, so we can't get the weapons factory back for the time being......"

Olive looked at Charles's complaining watch, as if she had missed millions, so she had to carefully explain the matter of the weapons factory to Charles, saying that there was no way to continue to make orders from the military for the time being.

"The workers of the factory are all the lords of Wenze, so is the factory our Chevalier or his Wenze's?"

Charles asked with a frown, in fact, he didn't fully understand what the relationship between Wen Ze and the family was, and he was embarrassed to ask Olive so naturally he didn't think to explain it to him.

"The great-grandfathers and grandfathers of Wenze, Cronin, and Percy were all knights of our Chevalier family, and they all died in the war with Engru, and our grandfather, in order to compensate them, recommended the grandfathers of Wenze, Cronin, and Percy to the royal family, and made them honorary barons and had a place in the House of Lords. ”

"Wenze's father was not a family son-in-law, but he was very courageous, and together with Cronin and Percy's father, he followed our father to the left and right of His Majesty Rotherff, and made a lot of contributions, and finally won the praise of His Majesty, and raised their titles again, but at that time the territory controlled by His Majesty was only a little near Aurelian, where did the territory come from to reward them.......?

After Olive explained, Charles generally understood the situation of those anti-bones, that is, although the titles of their ancestors were canonized by King Rousseff, the territory was given by the Marquis of Lorraine himself in order to save the face of His Majesty the King of the country.

These three anti-bone boys also know gratitude, they have always regarded themselves as vassal nobles of the Marquis of Lorraine all these years, and they dare not have two hearts before and after the saddle, but now that the Marquis of Lorraine is dead, a few guys actually feel that their wings are stiff and dare to fly solo.

"Charles, the Marquis of Lorraine is the thousand-year-old inheritance of our Chevalier family, with hundreds of thousands of lords, and an annual income surplus of six or seven thousand louis, although we are in trouble now, but I ...... I'm really unwilling to ......."

When Olive arrived here, Xu was excited, her face was tangled, her hands clenched into fists and waved gently, obviously struggling inside.

"Hundreds of thousands of lords, a financial balance of more than 100,000 or 200,000 francs a year, is really a lot of money...... No wonder so many wolves were recruited......

When Charles first came through, he didn't have a deep sense of belonging to Charles Chevalier's part, and he felt that everything other than life was 'indifferent', but as the share gradually took over, he also had obvious pain and unwillingness to lose the Marquis of Lorraine.

The territory may not make money as fast as some other ways to make quick money, such as arms trading, human smuggling and trafficking, etc., but its income is long-lasting, this year, next year, children and grandchildren can enjoy it endlessly.

This is one of the reasons why Olive insisted that Charles go to the House of Lords with her to get back the Marquis of Lorraine.

Charles borrowed 50,000 gold louis's foreign debt, which is indeed a sum, but as long as the Marquis of Lorraine does not have problems, it can still be paid off slowly by relying on various outputs in the territory, but if the taxes of the Marquis of Lorraine cannot be paid, then a single county of Bayonne may never be able to repay the money, and the interest alone can crush the previous county of Bayonne.

"Olive let's not talk about Wen Ze and them yet, do you know how many such permits there are in Florence?" Charles asked, shifting the subject and pointing his finger at the fortune permit on the table.

"That should not be much, ordinary workshops can forge muskets, as long as it does not exceed a certain amount, and taxes are paid according to the law, there is no need for such a military license at all, and the possession of such a license is necessary to pay a large sum of money to the military department every year. ”

"But the workshop is not qualified to supply the military, is it?"

Olive blinked and still didn't quite understand, "Charles, although there are not many arms dealers with this kind of license, but the biggest weapons dealers in Florence are the royal workshop and the military department's own factory, and the weapons produced by other weapons factories are not as good as the royal family's workshop, and the relationship is not as good as the military department's own factory, so they can't get much share." ”

"For example, the Moyano family, although they have this kind of license, but in this year's military's share of weapons procurement, because the firing rate of muskets is far inferior to that of the royal workshop, they have lost a small part of the share, and can only do some weapons replenishment and repair business through personal connections on the eastern front. ”

"It's only because of our father's share and that we're old friends with the quartermaster of the military department that we got a small share of the Southwestern Front Army, but in fact, our family's weapons factory is mainly for the production of weapons for the family's garrison army......"

"The rate of fire of the musket?"

"Yes, the firing rate of the flintlock pistol has been unstable, the muskets of the Royal Workshop have always been better than those of other factories, I have heard that many people are working on improving this, but there is no progress......

"We can ......" Charles had some ideas in mind, but it needed further consideration and experimentation.

"Don't do that, then without this license, we can't mass-produce weapons, right?"

Olive nodded and said in affirmativeness: "That's definitely not possible, if someone makes a large number of weapons privately, the military department will go beyond the security station and do it directly, no one dares to offend the rights of the military department!"

Charles understood thoroughly that the military department controlled the large-scale production and sale of weapons, and then set up their own factories to produce and sell them, and although the Chevalier family had a license to make a fortune, the way to make a fortune was blocked by the royal family and the military department.

"Charles, if we lose the Marquis of Lorraine and the weapons factory, there will be no reason to produce weapons, and I'm afraid they will take back this license......"

Olive also knew what the right to produce weapons meant to a nobleman on the ground, and perhaps this concern had been in her mind for a long time.

"Don't worry, Olive Live, this license will not be withdrawn, we will set up a new weapons factory immediately, the military will make civilian weapons without orders, so many mercenaries, do you still have no buyers?"

Charles understands the value of this license better than Olive, and if he wants to develop his own power and build his own elite private army, he must build a near-modern weapon army.

In the early stage of development, legality is very necessary for any force, and when it is fledgling, it is absolutely impossible to resist the powerful state apparatus, tens of thousands of troops are crushed, do you want to have a battle of 25,000 miles?

"Charr, civilian weapons don't make money, mercenaries generally like to customize weapons with characteristics in the weapon workshop......." Olive stroked her forehead, feeling that Charles really didn't know how to do it.

Charles didn't say anything, but despised it in his heart, "Civilian weapons don't make money? That's because the weapons they make are garbage, as long as the goods are good, there is no unprofitable business." ”

"Shire, we don't have too many workers right now......."

"Don't worry, Countess Moyano has workers, she will work with us......"